What are the odds… a van goes through a stop sign, gets pulled over by the cops and then gets arrested due to having stolen debit card information on various British citizens. The people who ran through the stop sign were also affiliated with a terrorist group named the Tamil Tigers. Oh yeah, not only did they go right through a stop sign, but they were also drinking. Hmmm…. I’m thinking these tigers might want to find some smarter people…

Police in Canada charged four men with fraudulently possessing financial data and criminal conspiracy after a traffic stop led to the discovery of 129 gift cards holding the banking details of British citizens and materials connecting the accused with the Tamil Tigers, a terrorist group, the Toronto Police Service said in a statement released on Wednesday.

The four men were detained after police pulled over their rented van for running a stop sign and found that the driver had been drinking, according to a Canwest News Service report. Following a search of the vehicle, the police allegedly discovered 41 plastic gift cards containing the banking information of British citizens encoded on their magnetic stripes. After searching a residence and hotel room connected with the men, police found 88 more plastic gift cards, $25,000 in Canadian twenty-dollar bills and “Tamil Tiger paraphernalia,” according to the statement released by the Toronto Police Service (pdf).[more]

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